What market watchers are saying this week

I FEEL YOUR PAIN

"Resources are always a sensitive matter. You extract them from an endowment in somebody's backyard. It's normally an emotional debate."

- BHP Billiton Ltd. CEO Marius Kloppers, doing the PR rounds in Canada, tells BNN that he's sensitive to Canadians' concerns over his company's proposed $38.6-billion (U.S.) takeover of Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. Read the story

TRY THIS SUIT ON FOR SIZE, MARIUS

"BHP's announcements were strategically timed, intended to colour investors' views of the future for PCS, and designed to raise the spectre that BHP was the 800-pound gorilla about to become a major competitor of PCS."

- One of the many allegations Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. fired at BHP Billiton Ltd. in its lawsuit this week aimed at blocking BHP's hostile takeover bid, claiming that its rival has been "coercive," "manipulative" and "misleading." Read the lawsuit

RICHARD THE KINDHEART (OR FOOLHEART?)

"Zimbabwe is a magnificent country that has had a really rough few years, and either the world can continue to wait and see and not invest … or the world can help."

- Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson urges foreign investors to help Zimbabwe's new coalition government revive the country's disastrous economy. Read the story

EVERYONE'S A GEKKO…

"Consumerism engulfed all of America - people wanted free lunches, they wanted free houses. We all fell victim to that ploy of 'dumb money'."

- Filmmaker Oliver Stone, whose Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps - the sequel to his 1987 business-greed classic Wall Street - premiered in New York this week, tells TheStreet.com that 20 years later, the greed filtered all the way down to Main Street. Watch the video

… EXCEPT CRAMER?

"I got fully compensated for my role. I got a WS2 hat … This is the kind of compensation you really deserve, right?"

- investing celebrity Jim Cramer of CNBC's Mad Money, on the payment he received for his cameo appearance in the Wall Street 2 sequel - which he considers fair value for his acting talents. Watch the video